Sentences with phrase «including academies and free schools»

In England and Wales the Act applies to all maintained and independent schools, including Academies and Free Schools, and maintained and non-maintained special schools.

The cross-party group of MPs called for the government to give personal, social and health education (PSHE) and sex and relationships education (SRE) statutory status in both primary and secondary schools, including academies and free schools.

• for independent schools, (including academies and free schools and alternative provision academies and free schools): Part 4 of the Schedule to the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014;

One of the actions in the School Food Plan is to introduce revised School Food Standards in all state - funded schools, including Academies and Free Schools.

Labour is calling for a more «coherent» way of running the different types of state - funded schools in England, including academies and free schools.

Labour is calling for a more «coherent» way of running the different types of state - funded schools in England, including academies and free schools.

[81] In 2014, Gove's department acceded to the BHA's campaign by banning creationism from being taught as science in state - funded English schools, including Academies and Free Schools, as well as introducing a requirement that such schools must teach evolution.

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However, general further education (FE) colleges, sixth - form colleges, non-maintained special schools (NMSS), approved special post-16 institutions (SPIs) and 16 to 19 academies (including free schools) have taken on significant new legal duties.

SEN units and resourced provision in mainstream academies (including free schools)

The Department for Education has recently published revised funding agreements for new academies and free schools, which include the requirement to follow the school food standards.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «These changes represent a significant victory in ensuring Academies and Free Schools have to respect the shared citizenship that all British people enjoy, which includes liberty, equality, tolerance for other views, and respect for the rule of English law.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

School districts that have verbally agreed to a partnership with the Department of Social Services include Akron; Alden; Amherst; Cheektowaga; Cheektowaga - Maryvale Union Free; Cheektowaga - Sloan Union Free; Clarence; Cleveland Hill Union Free; Depew Union Free; East Aurora Union Free; Eden; Evans - Brant; Frontier; Grand Island; Hamburg; Holland; Iroquois; Kenmore - Tonawanda Union Free; Lackawanna City schools; Lancaster; North Collins; Orchard Park; Randolph Academy; Springville - Griffith Institute; Sweet Home; Tonawanda City schools; West Seneca; and the Williamsville Central School District.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Supporters of the campaign include the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

In England, there are several types of academies, including sponsored and converter academies and free schools.

The money will give pupils a range of cultural opportunities including training at the Royal Ballet School in London, film - making classes at the BFI Film Academy and free opportunities to study art and design at their local college or university; and visits to museums and galleries, using quality resources to support their classroom teaching.

The Academy and Free School agenda, national funding reform, national curriculum and assessment changes including the introduction of the phonics check, distribution of Pupil Premium, significant changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage and the introduction of two Ofsted frameworks in one year all need to be considered alongside these SEND legislative changes.

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There are currently 533 schools in Hertfordshire, including 90 academies and six free schools.

These include: schools maintained by the local authority; academies and free schools; special schools; non ‑ maintained special schools; city technical colleges; and pupil referral units.

As Reform notes, having one independent commissioning body, separate from the funding of academies, is not without precedent, as in Sweden the independent Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municiSchools Inspectorate (SSI) carries out all accountability functions for municipality schools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools and free schools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools, including financial compliance, school inspection and assessing the suitability of new free school sponsors, while funding for schools is separately allocated through the municischools is separately allocated through the municipality.

As of 31 March 2016, 66 per cent of secondary schools and 20 per cent of primary schools are already academies; 65 per cent (3,611 out of 5,449) of academies (including free schools) were in MATs, up from 53 per cent at the end of the 2013/14 academic year.

KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate, where Stocklin teaches courses including AP English Language and Composition, is part of a national network of free, open - enrollment, public charter schools dedicated to preparing students in underserved communities for success.

These visitors were involved in a range of education building projects, including academies, local authorities, private providers, international schools, FE, HE and free schools.

We have a well - established track - record of partnering with a broad range of education establishments, including primary and secondary schools, academies and free schools, further education and technical colleges, and universities.

Governing bodies of maintained mainstream schools and the proprietors of mainstream academy schools (including free schools) must ensure that there is a qualified teacher designated as SENCO for the school.

As part of the new role, Clark will be responsible for overseeing the growth of academies in the region and will monitor the performance of 800 academies and free schools in areas including Bristol, Swindon and Cornwall.

The act includes a requirement for all state - funded schools — including academies — to provide free school lunches on request for all pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2.

EXAMPLE # 2: If I Could Choose My Team I Would Win Too Perhaps the most egregious misuse of Free and Reduced Priced Lunch peer group comparisons comes from including charter schools and selective vocational school academies.

Free schools are semi-independent schools paid for by the state which are set up by groups including parents, faith groups and charities - including trusts set up by groups already running academies in England.

Hundreds of documents were released on December 17, including several warning notices to academy trusts and councils, and plans to cut the annual # 2,300 grant to help small infant schools fund free meals for their pupils were announced with a minor webpage update at 4.25 pm on Friday, January 29.

This is something Labour used to understand and we have proudly expanded them, including the creation of entirely new academies as free schools.

The documents include the criteria for approving free schools and academy sponsors.

It could include # 2.5 billion for the pupil premium (Lib Dems), three million apprenticeships (Conservative), ensuring all teachers are qualified (Labour), bringing free schools and academies under local authority control (Green) or schools investigated by Ofsted on the presentation of a petition to the DfE signed by 25 per cent of parents or governors (UKIP)... or something entirely different.

A large number of accounting frauds perpetrated by Academies, Free Schools, and MATs have been reported in the press, including in Schools Week.

eAchieve Academy is part of the Waukesha School District and provides free accredited public education online for all Wisconsin residents under age 21, including legal residents living outside the state.

A line - up of education reformers — including a former adviser to David Cameron — have joined forces to launch a new campaign aimed at mobilising parents to highlight the achievements of academies and free schools, but details of the group's funders will not be released.

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She will work with more than 700 academies and free schools in regions including Birmingham, Stoke - on - Trent and Shropshire.

Limited areas, where there are «significant weaknesses», included EFA capital financial management, Priority Schools Building Programme governance, grant and contract management, and cyber security, academies and free schools recurrent fSchools Building Programme governance, grant and contract management, and cyber security, academies and free schools recurrent fschools recurrent funding.

Local authorities will no longer build schools themselves, so the free schools programme will be the gateway for «education providers» - including faith groups and those behind existing academy chains - to establish new schools.

But Sir Michael accepts that academies can also struggle, and some have failed, and Ofsted would back interventions in any school, including academies or free schools that are regarded as «coasting».

Exempt charities, including academies, free schools and voluntary - aided schools, can not register with the Charity Commission and are regulated by the DfE, although the former can sometimes play a regulatory role.

RSCs are taking critical decisions about our children's schools — including influencing whether new free schools get the go - ahead and monitoring performance of academies.

proprietors of independent schools (including academies, free schools and alternative provision academies) and non-maintained special schools

Lord Adonis, President of the Independent Academies Association has stated that 15 schools have already converted to become Free Schools with a further five set to convert later this year including Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, Chetwynde in Barrow - in - Furness, Cumbria and Holy Trinity School in Kiddermschools have already converted to become Free Schools with a further five set to convert later this year including Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, Chetwynde in Barrow - in - Furness, Cumbria and Holy Trinity School in KiddermSchools with a further five set to convert later this year including Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, Chetwynde in Barrow - in - Furness, Cumbria and Holy Trinity School in Kidderminster.

The Inspiration Teaching School Alliance includes regional partner schools including Bedford Free School, Cottenham Primary School, and Cottenham Village College, as well as the academies within the Inspiration Trust across Norfolk and north Suffolk.

Advisers work in a range of different roles including identifying and developing new academy sponsors, ensuring academies and free schools open successfully and tackling underperformance.

While the role of the RSCs is an external - facing one, which includes promoting the benefits of academies and free schools, their introduction was widely seen as an acceptance by the government that the growing number of academies could not be directly overseen by Whitehall.